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There exists within everyone the potential to experience a state of comfort, peace, and happiness. The attainment of this state takes us beyond our accomplishments, beyond all longing, beyond even the identification with self. To know this state is the experience we achieve when we PAUSE.

Pause: The Prayer that Needs no Answer™

A novel that changes lives.

Lara stands frozen at the threshold of a dark reality; her husband, tormented by a devastating mental illness, slides deeper and deeper into a well of insanity. With her life threatened, her world shattered, and her carefully constructed coping skills slipping away, her path converges with Dr. Elwood, a brilliant, charismatic, yet inscrutable University Professor. He teaches five powerful Resource States that shaped not only his life, but the lives of every student who ever sat in his classroom.

The five Resource States of PAUSE as taught by Dr. Elwood, include:

P-Present

A-Aware Witness

U-Unwind the Past

S-Surrender

E-Evoke Essence

From Dr. Elwood: “How can we know ourselves completely? How can we know anyone? There is a gap between how we see ourselves and who we actually are. That gap is filled with genetic patterning, core personality, trauma, and developmental wounding. The gap acts as a filter to what we let in, and a filter to what we let out. It creates unconscious obstacles to well-being, success, and a faulty perception of who anyone is!

If we cannot recognize what keeps us from seeing others clearly, it is difficult – if not impossible – to fully know ourselves. It is like looking at the world through the dark and narrow lens of a welding helmet. Imagine what that must feel like. Our heavy mask shields us from the light. No one sees our real face. Without perceiving what lies deeper, we can only live on the surface of our lives, are only drawn to the bright and shiny, and can only know narrow paths filled with illusions and distractions. The MASK does not reveal the truth of who others are, and certainly not the truth of who we are!”

Applying Dr. Elwood’s PAUSE Model completely changed Lara’s life. She was at the end of her ability to cope, felt completely victimized, and lacked the necessary resources to move forward. He taught her to see herself and others differently. It wasn’t easy, but she learned to change her state of mind, open her heart, and contacted the Essence of who she was. Dr. Elwood taught Lara that she had a choice to make – not just once, but in every moment of her life. She took off her mask and chose Love.

New Vistas International™, the New Vistas International™ logo, Mastering the Therapeutic Process™, Hypno-Workout™, The PAUSE Model of Counseling™, The PAUSE Model of Hypnotherapy™, Allowing the Magic™, and PAUSE the Prayer that Needs no Answer™ are trademarks of New Vistas International, LLC, and are based on the five Resource States of PAUSE.